How do you confirm django is using memcached?

Question

I have a python django webserver that I am trying to use memcached to make it faster.

I have downloaded and installed memcached and started it a user called virtual

Answer 1

You can test cache in Django's shell (python manage.py shell):

>>> from django.core.cache import cache
>>> cache.set('foo', 'bar', 600)
>>> cache.get('foo')
'bar'

If cache.get() returns the set value it means that cache is working as it should. Otherwise it will return None.

An other option is to start memcached with $ memcached -vv, since it will log all the cache accesses to the terminal. Or alternatively you can install monitoring tool for memcached (i.e. memcache-top) and check that something is happening in memcached while using your app.